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In 1959, J. J. (Jack) Luna sold his outdoor advertising business in the Upper Midwest and moved with his wife and small children to the Canary Islands off the coast of West Africa. Outwardly, he was a professional writer and photographer. Secretly, he worked underground in an activity that was at that time illegal under the regime of Generalissimo Francisco Franco.

In 1970 Franco yielded to intense pressure from the western world and moderated Spain's laws, leaving Luna free to come in from the cold. By that time, however, privacy had become an ingrained habit. In the years that followed he started up various one-person low-profile businesses, built them up and then sold them.

Luna is especially interested in designing and building secret spaces and hiding places. He currently has a 3300-square foot three-level safe house for sale that is set in an almost-invisible location despite being within city limits. The exterior is complete but the interior is unfinished, awaiting a buyer who will decide which spaces or rooms are to have secret entrances. The approximate price, when finished according the buyer’s instructions, will be $795,000, plus (if desired) the cost of a secret escape tunnel into the adjoining forest. The location is in the Pacific Northwest.

Luna has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, profiled in Playboy, and interviewed on the G. Gordon Liddy Show. His most popular book, How to be Invisible, is available in all major book stores and on Amazon.com. In addition to writing a series of e-books, he meets with individual clients who are in need of help in the fields of privacy and security.

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Wow, paranoid. With some good reason but a tough chew for some.

I had some issues with it, aside from some poor copy-editing and substantive editing. First, and most important, I found many things that actually were illegal in this book. This could be a nationality issue - the book is written for Americans and I am not - but because I had picked a chapter in the middle to read for fun before reading the whole thing and found the things I knew to be illegal, I was now questioning the legality of everything in the book. It made the entire thing less enjoyable for me.

The next part was the sexism. Most of the book was simply about the facts but any time there was anything that could be gendered, it reeks of '60's rhetoric - with the man arranging everything and having to protect the poor, little wife. When he suggested names for people he even stuck with only giving male suggestions. I hate to say it but women have even more cause to have to value their privacy, yet it was not a consideration.

It needs to be updated again for modern times. For example, stopgap computers are not always possible as software no longer comes on CD/DVDs. Once one has to log on even once to obtain software, or plug in a stick to transfer files, updating security patches becomes a necessity. As well, more and more, all levels of government just expect people to have access to modern technology and do not have hard-copy alternatives. I cannot count the number of times I have gotten into some upset because a civil servant has told me that I must now go to the public library for Internet access then, if I cannot afford home Internet, because they simply do not have paper applications, not even to order. I now need a smartphone to call a cab. It's ridiculous and technology is becoming unavoidable.

The last issue I am going to mention is the money. His solutions are costly. It is a shame because it is often the people who do not have money who need more protection. For example, it is those in helping professions (cops, social workers, free clinic workers, addiction workers, teachers, therapists, etc.) who attract unwanted attention from those they serve, but their professions do not remunerate them as well as others. The advice he gives doesn't well serve large groups who would likely need it.

While there were some takeaways, most of the advice I will be following was also mentioned in other books on this topic. this isn't going to be the first book I recommend to people.
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OptimisticCautiously | 2 andre anmeldelser | Sep 16, 2020 |
An impulse read from Amazon; interesting take on privacy. A little paranoid, a little ingenious, makes you think about covering all of your tracks.
 
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nfulks32 | Jul 17, 2020 |
In 1970, Franco yielded to pressure from the western world, moderated Spain's laws, and allowed Luna to "come in from the cold", which was 11 years running a secret operation.
 
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keylawk | 2 andre anmeldelser | Mar 6, 2007 |
In a world awash with private investigators out to get you (???), you must sell your house and move if you've ever received a letter or delivery at your true address (???), hire only Jehovah's Witnesses as cleaning ladies (???), ... (Sorry, I just can't go on. The author must have shortened his name from Lunatic.) www.howtobeinvisible.com
 
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fpagan | 2 andre anmeldelser | Oct 7, 2006 |

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